Improvement in harvesting-machines



W. H; JORDAN Harvesting Machine. No. 42,197. Patented April 5, I864. I

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Uniren STATES V. H. JORDAN, OF ROSEVILLE, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN HARVESTING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 42,fl97, dated April 5,1864.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, W. H. JORDAN, of Roseville, in the county of Parkand State of Indiana, have invented a new and ImprovedHarvesting-Machine; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, making a part ofthis specification, in which-Figure l is a side view of my invention;

-- Fig. 2, a side sectional view of my invention,

taken in the line 00 :r, Fig. 3; Fig. 3, a plan or top view of the same;Fig. 4, a detached view of a shaft pertaining to the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

This invention relates to a new and improved machine for cuttingstandinggrain and thrashing it simultaneously.

The object of the invention is to obtain a simple and efficient machinefor the purpose specified, and one which will admit of the thrashingapparatus being used separately when required.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct myinvention,1 will proceed to describe it.

A represents the frame of the machine, composed chiefly of two uprightparallel plates, a

a, through which an axle, B, passes transverse] y and is allowed torotate freely.

O O are the wheels of the axle, the former being placed loosely on thelatter. Each wheel 0 has a pawl, D, attached to its outer sides,

. and these pawls engage with ratchets E,which are secured one on eachend of the axle B. The ratchets E have their teeth inclined in abackward position. as shown clearly in Fig. 1, so as to admit of thepawls I) slipping over themes the machine is backed, and thereby preventthe rotationof the axle B, the latter being rotated as the machine isdrawn forward in consequence of the pawls engaging with the ratchetswhen the wheels 0 are turned in a forward direction.

At the front end of the frame A there is a reciprocating sickle, E,which is fitted and works in two shoes, F Fone at each side of the frameA. To one end of the sickle E there is connected the front end of a bentlever, G, the fulcrum b of which passes through a brack- I et, 0, at oneend of a bar, (1, which is directly back of the sickle E. The back endof the lever G is connected by a pitman, H, with a toothed crank-whee],I, which is at one side of the frame A, and gears into a wheel, J, on ashaft, 6, said shaft also having a pinion, K, upon it, which gears intoa toothed wheel, L, on the axle B. By means of this gearing, the pitmanH, and bent lever G a reciprocating motion is communicated to the sickleE as the machine is drawn along or moved in a forward direction, thesickle being rendered inopera tive when the machine is backed, inconsequence of the axle not being turned, as previously alluded to.

The front end of the machine is supported by a pair of wheels, M, to theaxle N of which the draft-pole 0 is attached, the latter having anupright king-bolt, f, secured to it, which passes up through a hole inthe front end of a bar, P, attached to the right-hand side of the frameA. The wheels M are at the right-hand side of the sickle E, so that theformer cannot in the least interfere with the operation of the latter,(see Fig. 3,) and the axle N is allowed to turn freely by means of theking'bolt connection, so as to admit of the machine being properlyguided and turned.

At the front part of the frame A there is a reel, Q, which may beconstructed in the ordinary way, and. arranged in relation with thesickle E as usual.

H is an endless inclined apron, which is placed in the frame A, directlyback of the sickle E, and works over two rollers, g g, as shown clearlyin Fig. 2. These rollers gg have their journals fitted in bars h, whichare attached to the inner surfaces of the plates a a. The journals ofthe upper roller, g, pass through the plates (1 a, and a pulley, t, isattached to one of said journals, and a toothed wheel,j, is attached tothe other. The shoes F F of the sickle E, as well as the bar 61, areattached to the front parts of the bars h, and said sickle may be raisedand lowered by raising or lowering the front ends of the bars h, thelatter being retained at the desired point by bolts k, which passthrough curved slots 1 in the plates at and into the bars h. By thismeans the sickle may be raised or lowered to cut the grain at thedesired height from the the surface of the ground, and at the same timea proper relative position at all times obtained between the sickle andtheapron R.

Motion is communicated to the reel Q from the pulley i by means of abelt, at.

The Wheel j, which is one of thejournals of the upper roller, 9, oftheendless apron R, gears into a toothed wheel, S, on the axle B, and bymeans of this gearing motion is communicated to the apron B, said apronmoving in the direetion indicated by the arrow 1. In the upper part ofthe frame A there is I placed a thrashing-cylinder, T, which may betached to them at proper and equal distances apart. The belts p 19 passaround a shaft, W,

in the frame A, directly back of the concave U, and also pass around twopulleys, M", on a shaft, X, in the rear end of the lrame A. Motion isgiven this dischargingapron in the direction indicated by arrow '2 bymeans of a pinion, s, on one of the bearings of shaft W, gearing intothe wheel S on the axle B.

Underneath the discharging-apron V there is suspended a shoe, Y. Thisshoe is suspended by rods it. from each side a of the frame A, soarranged that the shoe may have a lateral swinging motion, and thismotion is'communicated to it by means of a crank, u, atone end of theshaft W of the apron V, and a pitman, a, which-connects said crank witha bent lever, '10, attached to one side of the shoe Y, and having itsfulcrum in one of the sides a of-the frame A. The shoe Y has twobottoms, y y, with a space between them, and the lower bottom,y, isprovided with two lateral discharge-spouts, z z, one, 2, being at theouter and the other, 2, at the inner end of the shoe, said shoe beingsomewhat inclined. its inner end being the lowest. As the machine isdrawn along the out grain is made, under the action of the reel Q, tofall upon the endless apron E, which carries it up between thethrashing-cylinder T and concave U, where the grain is thrashed from thestraw and both discharged upon the. slotted apron V, which dischargesthe straw from the rear end of the machine, the grain passing downthrough said apron and into the shoe Y. The better quality of the grainwill fall through the inner part of the apron V and upon the upperbottom, y, of the shoe Y, and will be discharged from the spout 2 at theinner end of the shoe, while the poorer quality of grain will fallthrough the outer part of the apron and into the spout '2'. Thus it willbe seen that the grain may be cut and thrashed simultaneously. or at oneoperation, and the straw left upon the field in a proper condition forbinding.

The tlirashingdevice may he used separately at any time by detaching thepitmau H from the bent lever G and removing the belt m from the shaft ofthe reel Q, so as to render the sickle and reel inoperative, and thenelevatingthe machine on a proper support, so that the wheels 0 may clearthe ground; or detaching the wheels and apply power through the mediumof a rod, X, with the axle B. By this arrangementthe thrashing devicemay be used separately and operate equally as well as any of theordinary stationary machines devised for that purpose.

1 do not claim the thrashing-cylinder Tand concave U separately, nor doI claim sepa-' rately the endless aprons it V; but,

Having thus described my invention, what I do claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is- Y Y The arrangement of the cuttingmechanism, apron R, and arms h with the thrashing-cylinder T, apron V,and shoe Y, all in the manner herein shown and described.

W. H. JORDAN.

Witnesses Enw. L. WHEAT, H. A. SMITH.

